TY - JOUR
T1 - Conversation as Academic Practice:
T2 - Tutors' Strategies in Integrating Student Learning in a Professional Training Degree Programme
AU - Bowden, Matt
PY - 2012/6/1
Y1 - 2012/6/1
N2 - Tutors are generally considered to be an additional resource in teaching and learning, as a means of augmenting that of the lecturer. This article explores tutors as academic staff with responsibilities for developing practice competencies and integrating student learning in a social care professional training degree programme. The research is small-scale, based upon data from a purposive sample of five interviews; and upon insider-participant observation notes and reflections in one single setting. The author deployed a situated ethnographic methodology alongside a frame analytic approach. The research found that in their academic practice, tutors reveal how their student contact is oriented to developing a reflective practitioner and they discuss how programme inputs impact on the student’s professional self. Simultaneously, tutors seek to create cross programme integration through finding overlaps with academic programme strands.
AB - Tutors are generally considered to be an additional resource in teaching and learning, as a means of augmenting that of the lecturer. This article explores tutors as academic staff with responsibilities for developing practice competencies and integrating student learning in a social care professional training degree programme. The research is small-scale, based upon data from a purposive sample of five interviews; and upon insider-participant observation notes and reflections in one single setting. The author deployed a situated ethnographic methodology alongside a frame analytic approach. The research found that in their academic practice, tutors reveal how their student contact is oriented to developing a reflective practitioner and they discuss how programme inputs impact on the student’s professional self. Simultaneously, tutors seek to create cross programme integration through finding overlaps with academic programme strands.
KW - tutoring
KW - integrated learning
KW - professional training
UR - https://arrow.dit.ie/ijap/vol1/iss1/1
U2 - 10.21427/d7p72k
DO - 10.21427/d7p72k
M3 - Article
VL - 1
JO - Irish Journal of Academic Practice
JF - Irish Journal of Academic Practice
IS - 1
ER -